Safety toilet-seat cover



April 27,1926. 4 1,582,521..

. A. MARKS SAFETY TOILET SEAT COVER Filed Feb. '5, 1922 ARKMS on: LTET i-x As VERCO Inventor.- Alfr'e 4' Mark;

Patented Apr. 27, 1 926.

ALFRED MARKS, or nomrra rm. onnmoanm.

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Application filed February 3, 1922. Serial "No. 583,988.

. To all coho m. it may concern:

ject of the King Be it known that I, ALFRED MARKS, a subof Great Britain, residing at Lomita Park, in the county of San Mateo and State of California, have invented a new and useful Safety Toilet-Seat Cover, of.

which the following is a specification.

An object of this invention isto provide for hinged toilet seats, a practical cover that will receive public favor, that canbe vended in vending machines or otherwise conveniently supplied to toilets in other ways and .which will protect the person from contact with the toilet seatboth in theoperation of putting the cover on and in removing .it

from the seat as wellas while in use.

A feature of the invention resides 1n that the paper sheet having the central orifice also has folded side flaps which serve as combined protectors for the hands in placing the cover on the seat, and as retainers to fit upon the toilet bowl and to be clamped between the bowl and seat when the seat is in place for use.

Another feature of the invention includes back of said orifice and temporarily held by connections arranged near the tip of the flap and breakable by pressure of the seated perv son so that said flap is not in the way during I vending or handling but becomes effective to protect against contact of the person with the front margins of seat orificeor bowl.

A further object of the invention is to provide a toilet seat cover especially adapted for advertising purposes without exposing the advertising ink to the person of the user.

Other objects, advantages and features of invention may appear from the accompanying drawing, the subjoined detail description and the appended claims.

The accompanying drawing invention.

Figure-1 is a perspective view of a partly lowered toilet seat with this invention applied thereto.

Fig. 2 is a transverse section looking forward from the middle of the lowered seat after use and before removing the cover.

Fig. 3 is a plan of the under side of the illustrates the cover ready to be grasped for application.

1 I Dotted lines indicate the fold creases.

Fig. 4 is a top view of the cover shown in cipient elongate orifice 2, the rear portion aof which is open and the 'front portion b outlined by two sideslits c, d and temporarily closed by a tab 3 which is separated from the body 1 by the slits except at the permanent front connection 4 and breakable rear connections 5.

Said body terminates laterallyin two side flaps 7f folded under the body 1 and adapted to afford means by which the person desiring to use the seat may take hold of the edges of the seat to raise it, and which will rest on the top of the bowl to be gripped by the seat or the downwardly. extending cushions usually thereon, so that when the seat is lowered,'the cover will be held securely in place.

The cover is preferably made of soluble paper of sufficient stiffness to hold its form,

and the orifice is out in part as indigated, I

and the side flaps 7 folded under.

Then the cover may be folded as desired. The dotted lines 8, indicate lines along which the sheet may be folded to form the packet shown in Fig. 5.

In practice the packetsmay be carried in the pocket, in travelling bags, in hand satchels or in other convenient ways so as to be available when needed for public toilet use; and they may be distributed by vending machines, or free to public toilets; and the tab or other parts of the cover-may be provided with advertising matter. Preferably the advertising matter will be applied to those portions of the cover which will be visible in. the folded packet and which will not come into contact with the person of the user, and the cover is so folded as to simultaneously expose the outer surface e of the flaps 7, and the under surface f of the tab, so that the eye of the one'who takes one of the covers may immediately. fall upon the advertisement.

In placing the seat cover in position for use the packet will be unfolded and grasped along the side flaps 7 which afford protection to the hands when raising the toilet seat and placing thecover in position. The side flaps 7 are clamped between the bowl and the seat when the cover is in place and the seat is down and securely holds the cover in position. The pressure of the seated per- 110 son breaks the rear connections 5 and the tab 3 falls downward and forward to protect against contact of the person with the front margins of the seat orifice or bowl.

advantage is the ease and simplicity of application to a toilet seat and maximum protection against contact with the toilet seat or bowl.

A further advantage is that when the seat cover is in use the rear portion a of the orifice 2 being open and the tab 3 being disconnected by pressure of the seated person from the breakable rear connections 5 and such tab falling downward and forward affords a seat cover which not only 'ves maximum protection but provides a seat cover which affords maximum cleanliness and comfort to the user. i

I claim.

1. A toilet seat cover comprising a sheet having a centrally arranged incipient orifice and the sheet at the front end of the orifice and lightly connected with the body of the sheet at the rear portion, the connections at the rear portion of said tab being breakable by pressure of a seated person.

2. A toilet seat cover comprising a sheet provided with an incipient orifice in which 1s a tab connected at one end with the body of the sheet and also lightly connected at its rear end with the body of the Sheet, the

connections at the rear end of the tab being breakable by pressure of a seated person; said sheet being folded atits sides to form lateral flaps to be clamped between the seat and the toilet bowl and said sheet being folded so as to bring the underside of the a tab outlined by slits and connected to flaps and the tab into exposed position to form a closed packet upon which advertising matter may be presented to the eye simultaneously wlthout being in position to contact with the body of the person using the toilet when the cover is in place.

3. A toilet seat cover comprising a sheet having an incipient elongate orifice the rear portion of which is open and the front portion of which is outlined by slits and temporarily closed by a tab; a permanent front connection and breakable rear connections connecting said tab to the sheet; and side flaps along the lateral sides of said sheet to protect the hand in applying the cover to a toilet seat and also to be clamped'on the toilet seat when the seat is down and the cover on top of the seat; the rear connections connecting said tab to the seat being breakableby pressure of the seated person and said tab then affording protection to the seated person as set forth.

4. A sanitary seat cover comprising a blank having a body and an opening conforming to the opening in the seat except at its front portion where the blank has an in ward extension connected at its front by a wide portion and at its rear corners by narrow strips to the main body but leaving the major part of the opening unobstructed, said extension forming an apron for the front of the seat when the narrow strips are torn in use by pressure of the body of the user.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at Los Angeles, California, this 26th day of January, 1922.

ALFRED MARKS. 

